How is sexism different from objectification?

Objectification is one particular form of sexism.

Sexism is a form of oppression, a social injustice. It is the assumption of one sex's superiority, of one sex's inferiority, and the culturally ingrained, hegemonic systems that supports that ideology. In our society, sexism is specifically the ideology that men are superior to (stronger than, smarter than, more important than, and entitled to) women -while some individual women may have anti-male attitudes, this is different from sexism because sexism is systemic not merely individual (in the same way that certain individual may have anti-white attitudes, but racism is specifically NOT against white people, at least not in our society -someone hurting your feelings that one time is NOT the same thing as systemic oppression that is ingrained into societal structures & ideologies). Objectification is one facet of sexism -of men feeling entitled to women, and superior to women; it happens when women are treated as sexual objects, rather than sexual subjects. It is not the same as sexualization (i.e., finding someone sexually attractive is not objectification), it is specific to seeing that person/treating them as though they were an object to be used, rather than a subject with their own thoughts & desires. (While objectification of men does happen, again, it is quite rare in comparison -I know I'm gonna get a lot of nasty comments about generalizing and whatnot but I'm talking overarching social forces here).

TLDR:

Sexism is this: http://imgur.com/gallery/zFwAcdB

and objectification is this: http://msmagazine.com/blog/2012/07/03/sexual-objec...

Sexism is discrimination against a particular gender.

Objectification is something that encourages and leads to sexism by making members of a particular gender appear to be less human than members of the other gender. This is done by depicting them as mostly only worthy of being used for the gratification of the other gender, instead of being worthy specifically based on their humanity.

Sexism is to discriminate based on sex. Some sexist policies many people agree with, some few agree with and some are controversial.

Objectification is to view someone only as an object and no longer see them as human. It's very rare anyone actually stops recognizing a person is actually a person.

While often sexist, objectification isn't necessarily sexist. If someone objectifies both a males and females equally, their objectification would not be sexist.

To discriminate is simply to choose one option over other based on some criteria. If I hire someone who is experienced over someone who is not, because of that experience difference I am in fact discriminating. (I'm discriminating based on experience) When people talk about discrimination however, they typically mean to discriminate on factors that really have no bearing on ability, efficiency, etc.

Objectification is not a crime and is therefore not subject to our judicial system.

Objectification is when men say would you tap that? about you, sexism is when a man gets a ton of crap for wearing a skirt. Objectification is when a woman talks about your *** every time you bend down to get a coke out of the break room vending machine, Sexism is when a man would get in trouble for this behavior yet the victim being male the women won't even if she makes a bigger deal out of it when you ask her to stop.

Sexism is treating someone bad and behaving unessarly inappropriate around the opposite sex. Objectification on the other hand is denying them as a person. As state to-object them all totogether.

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One is being rude.

The other is ignoring them as a person with feelings.